Package-tie



(No Model.)

T. E. LEWIS.

PACKAGE TIE.

No. 303,528. Patented Aug. 12, 1884.

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- THOMAS E. LEWIS, OF VIOKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI.

PACKAGE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 303,528, dated August12, 1884. I

Application filed June 6, 1884.

To all whom t may concern.

Beit known that I. Ti-Ioims E. Lnwrs, of Vicksburg, county of XVarren,and State of Mississippi, have invented certain Improvements inPackage-Ties, of which the following is a speeifieation.-

This invention relates to a device to be applied to the outside of apackage to securethe ends ofthe fastening-cord, and upon which may beprinted any suitable mat-ter to indicate the character of the contentsof the package, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure I is a top view of apackage provided with the invention. Fig. II is a similar v iew with apart of the invention removed. Fig. III is a rear view of the fasteningdevice and cord. Fig. IV is a longitudinal section of the fasteningdevice. Figs. V and VI are respectively a sectional and an exterior viewof a paper box provided with the invention. Figs. VII and VIIIillustrate the attachment of the inventionto the bagging of a bale. Y

A is the package, which in Figs. I and II is shown as a small parcel,and in Figs. V and VI as a paper box.

B.is a plate, preferably formed of pasteboard, and of such size as willadmit of a description of the contents of the package being printedthereupon. In Figs. I, II,.III, IV, VII, and VIII this plate is madeentirely independent of the package, while in Figs. V and VI the saidplate consists of the lid of the box.

O is the securing-cord.

In Figs. I, II, III, and IV the plate B is provided with eyeletedperforations, (represented by c, I), c, and d,) and the eyelet c in thecentral perforation, d, serves to secure to the plate B the disk D. Thisdisk, which is on the front of the plate B, has a slot, f, extendingfrom its periphery to near the flange of the eyelet c, and this slot haspreferably the depressions g at its inner end, as shown particularly inFig. VI.

By referring to Fig. III it will be seen that in applying the inventionto a package the ends of the securing-cord O are iirst passed throughthe eyeleted holes c and I) from the rear side of the plate B, and thenboth ends (No model.)

returned to the rear side through the hole c. In this-operation a loop,E, is formed, in which the package A is placed. The two parts of thesecuring-cord are then carried around the package, as shown by thearrows h in Figs. I and II, and brought through the central hole, d, asshown particularly in Fig. II, in which figure the front disk, I), isnot shown. twov parts of the cord C are next passed into the slot f andcarried around the eyelet c, underneath the disk D, as indicated by thearrow i, and then brought out, as shown by the arrow I, and drawntightly, which completes the fastening. The depression g in the slot fserves to give space for the cords, and tends to prevent the same againentering the straight y portion of the slot.

In Figs. V and VI a wire is employed instead of a cord, and it isattached to the bottoni of the box A. In this construction the holes c,b, and c are not required, as the wire passes directly through the holed. In Figs. VII and VIII the wire is fastened to the baling material,and also to the plate B, which serves to hold the said plate fromturning.

It will be understood that the principal object of the invention is toprovide means for the final fastening of the securing-cord C.Consequently', in all the various constructions shown in the drawings,the central eyelet, e, and the slotted disk D are employed; and while inFigs. V'and VI the plate B is a part of the package-covering, its ofliceis practically the same as when the plate is employed in addition to thepackage.

. I claim as my inventionl. Ina package-tie, a device to secure the endsof a cord, which consists of the plate B, connected with the disk D,which is fastened to the said plate by means of an eyelet, and

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